[biblitfonts] My Status (For the Moment)

Biblit Font Folks,

I'm listening, and I have a couple of things added to my tasklist based
on the conversations of the past couple of days, but I won't be able to
participate materially (so to speak) until sometime next week. As much
as I'd like to work on jots and tittle full time, I'm pretty buried this
week and most of next week with other projects. (John, if there is
anything particularly urgent that you need in order to proceed at all,
let me know; I can probably squeeze out an hour here or there.)

For the record, this is the list of things I've thought of doing in
furtherance of this particular effort:

(1) Add the BHS printed Ketiv forms to my combinatorial analysis. We
went ahead and keyed these (highly unusual) forms into our upcoming
release of the Westminster BHS morphology database, so I have that data
to analyze.

(2) Implement several new normalization schemes based on recent
discussions. For one, I plan to implement Paul's proposed proposal to
Unicode (as best I understand it, and I will expect him to correct me
where I am wrong), only I will be applying it to the existing Hebrew
code points instead of the (unfortunately necessary) new "Biblical
Hebrew" codepoints that I believe Paul will be proposing. Secondly, I'll
look at Joan's last proposal of putting all upper marks and all lower
marks into two separate combining classes (which effectively makes a
purely order-based system). Thirdly, I may make some recommendations of
my own based on that work. Or I may not. :-)

(3) Based on #2, create several versions of the BHS text normalized to
the various schemes, and create several versions of the combinatorial
analysis and test documents.

(4) Also based on #2, create a side-by-side comparison of Joan's metheg
positioning chart with the various (proposed) normalization schemes.

None of these things is particularly difficult for me to do, but I won't
be able even think about them until next week. Sorry about that.

Eli

-- 
Eli Evans, Text Preparation Manager
Libronix Corporation
http://www.libronix.com - eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Ec. 12:12

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